Mr Antico spent the middle of the week dealing with a claim by a customer in Orange, in central-west NSW, that a punnet of strawberries he supplied had a needle in it.

He is frustrated by what appear to be a large number of copycat offences, but he said Prime Minister Scott Morrison's decision to push for tougher penalties for food tampering offences had bolstered his spirits.

"We're definitely seeing less needles in punnets… and today is the first day in two weeks that we've sold out," he said.